



Benedict Cumberbatch and his mum Wanda Ventham during the press day at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, at the Royal Hospital in Chelsea, London[HQ]
Benedict Cumberbatch and his mum Wanda Ventham during the press day at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, at the Royal Hospital in Chelsea, London[HQ]
Benedict Cumberbatch at the Park Theatre’s first birthday celebration, in Finsbury Park[HQ]
I believe that little boy Benedict looking thoroughly moody (or perhaps he’s just being a tart) on his old balcony needs its own post.
Youtube version of Benedict and Wanda’s interview at the Chelsea Flower Show. Youtube takes it time processing the cropped version so you might have to skip to 1:25 for the time being.
Benedict Cumberbatch interview on BBC One - Chelsea Flower Show BABY!
Babybatch!
Benedict Cumberbatch attends the media day at the Chelsea Flower Show in London, May 19 2014
(pretty sure this https://twitter.com/AnaSPFarias/status/468346875729698816/photo/1 is not the original source though…)
https://twitter.com/slapartistscouk/status/468345861471490048 might be this
Download Mansfield Park, a 10-part adaptation of one of the great English classics, starring Felicity Jones, Benedict Cumberbatch and David Tennant, here.
Will add links to the other parts here when they come out. Message me if any of the links break.
Added links for part three
In Focus: Turning Benedict Cumberbatch into Julian Assange
Working on The Fifth Estate and trying to make Benedict Cumberbatch look like Julian Assange was a really interesting makeup [project] because you had to make him look like somebody completely different but no-one was supposed to know he was in full makeup.
The hair was a wig. He was already tied into doing the next Sherlock so he wasn’t allowed to die his hair. Every morning I had to slick his hair down, put a bald cap on him – a latex scull cap, colour that in, stick it all down, put a wig on top, get that secured. Then I’d bleach his eyebrows so they weren’t too dark and put contact lenses in to deaden his eyes a little bit.
Because he had an Australian accent we wanted to change his profile a bit so we had some fake teeth made for him so he had double thick gums. It’s a very little thing and no-one’s meant to know except us but it just helps him with his accent.
There was a little bit of foundation. Julian Assange has quite a bit of sun damage so we had to paint on freckles. It was pretty full-on makeup considering that it doesn’t really look like makeup.
http://www.ideastap.com/IdeasMag/the-knowledge/BAFTA-interview-christine-blundell via @IdeasMag